[1525] in Humor
HUMOR: People unclear on the concept
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Thu Jul 18 10:33:45 1996
From: <abennett@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 10:16:40 EDT
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 22:36:55 -0800
From: connie@interserve.com (Connie Kleinjans)
From: Terry Weissman <terry@netscape.com>
From: Nicolas Pioch <pioch@netscape.com>
From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (James H. Haynes)
A county in Arkansas just got 911 service. A woman called 911 to
verify that her correct address was in the system. It was. Then she
said she wanted to verify the same information for an elderly
neighbor. The operator explained that she would have to make that
call from the neighbor's house.
A few minutes later the woman called again, and the information for
her own home showed up on the screen. Again the operator told her she
would have to make the call from the neighbor's house.
"I'm at his house now," the caller said into her cordless telephone.
(Abridged from an AP story in {Northwest Arkansas Times}, 2 July 1996).
